What is accidental damage cover?
Your typical home or contents insurance policy protects you against loss or damage from events like a storm, fire or theft — but it doesn’t always cover you for items you lose or accidentally damage. That’s where cover for Accidental Damage at Home comes in.
Accidental Damage at Home is an optional cover for AAMI Home & Contents, Contents only and Building only Insurance.
What’s covered as accidental loss or damage?
Some examples of accidental loss or damage include:
For buildings
- A wall is damaged when you move the couch to make way for the vacuum cleaner.
- Damage to roof tiles and the gutter when someone slips on the roof while cleaning the gutters.
- You try to put that new art piece on the wall but accidentally take a chunk of plaster with you while hanging it.
For contents
- While playing active video games like tennis, the remote-control slips and cracks the TV screen…nasty.
- Your darling daughter draws in permanent marker all over the couch, entertainment unit and carpet…uh, oh!
- You lose your wedding ring (limits apply to jewellery unless you increase them).
- You have bub in one hand and a laptop in the other, and the laptop slips and the screen shatters.
What’s not covered as accidental loss or damage?
For buildings
- Shoddy workmanship owing to that DIY barn door installation that didn’t work out as planned!
For contents
- Wear and tear of your couch or other furniture.
- The gradual deterioration of something with age, like your coffee machine.
- Deliberate or reckless acts of breakage like smashing your TV when your footy team loses.
Is it worth getting cover for accidental damage?
Accidents happen no matter how careful we are. If you have AAMI Home and/or Contents Insurance, it could be worth considering upgrading your policy to include optional cover for Accidental Damage at Home.
Got an AAMI policy?
Give us a call on 13 22 44 to add Accidental Damage at Home to your existing AAMI Home Insurance policy. You’ll just need your policy number.
Still considering AAMI?
When you get a new AAMI Home Insurance quote, just select the Accidental Damage at Home Optional Cover.
Get a quote for Home Insurance
Need to make a claim?
Have an AAMI Home Insurance policy and need to make a claim? Easily lodge your claim online or through the AAMI App.
Why claim online?
- Claim 24/7 – anytime, anywhere
- Simple guided claims process
- Track or update your claim at any time
- Manage photos and documents easily
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